TCP/IP Contracts in the Midlands

Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP)
England > Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands with a requirement for TCP/IP skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited TCP/IP over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 97 139 167
Rank change year-on-year +42 +28 -42
Contract jobs citing TCP/IP 42 23 40
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 1.54% 0.67% 0.79%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 8.59% 4.49% 6.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 18 32
10th Percentile £188 £163 £151
25th Percentile £205 £183 £209
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £338 £325
Median % change year-on-year +40.74% +3.85% -
75th Percentile £550 £388 £496
90th Percentile £575 £538 £547
England median daily rate £475 £500 £465
% change year-on-year -5.00% +7.58% +9.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 2
Median hourly rate - £18.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year - -7.50% +11.11%
England median hourly rate £47.00 £65.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year -27.70% +136.36% -30.38%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Midlands

TCP/IP is in the Communications and Computer Networking category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 489 512 573
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 17.93% 14.88% 11.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 292 339 400
10th Percentile £200 £250 £166
25th Percentile £312 £313 £222
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £450 £398
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% +13.21% -0.63%
75th Percentile £575 £591 £500
90th Percentile £688 £700 £600
England median daily rate £490 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -6.67% +5.00% +14.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 17 33
10th Percentile £12.28 £12.50 £12.38
25th Percentile £13.13 £16.25 £13.54
Median hourly rate £14.27 £20.71 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -31.08% +18.31% +16.67%
75th Percentile £24.35 £28.50 £20.51
90th Percentile £28.75 £40.25 £23.15
England median hourly rate £39.25 £18.88 £23.91
% change year-on-year +107.95% -21.06% -4.36%

TCP/IP
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Job postings citing TCP/IP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for TCP/IP in the Midlands

TCP/IP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing TCP/IP in the Midlands.

Daily rate trend for TCP/IP in the Midlands

TCP/IP
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing TCP/IP in the Midlands over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for TCP/IP in the Midlands

TCP/IP
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing TCP/IP in the Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for TCP/IP in the Midlands

TCP/IP
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing TCP/IP within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
East Midlands +35 21 £325 -15.58% 28
West Midlands +32 21 £525 +64.06% 32
TCP/IP
England

TCP/IP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 3 (7.14%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (2.38%) Confluence
2 1 (2.38%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (7.14%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (4.76%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 10 (23.81%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (2.38%) Azure
2 1 (2.38%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (2.38%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 23 (54.76%) DNS
2 16 (38.10%) DHCP
3 10 (23.81%) Firewall
4 8 (19.05%) VPN
5 5 (11.90%) Internet
5 5 (11.90%) SAN
6 4 (9.52%) Ethernet
7 3 (7.14%) VLAN
7 3 (7.14%) WAN
7 3 (7.14%) Wi-Fi
8 2 (4.76%) BGP
8 2 (4.76%) LAN
8 2 (4.76%) Network Security
8 2 (4.76%) OSPF
8 2 (4.76%) Remote Desktop
8 2 (4.76%) SD-WAN
8 2 (4.76%) Wireshark
9 1 (2.38%) InfiniBand
9 1 (2.38%) Software-Defined Networking
9 1 (2.38%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.38%) Apache Hive
1 1 (2.38%) Hadoop
1 1 (2.38%) Oracle Database
1 1 (2.38%) SQL Server
1 1 (2.38%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 6 (14.29%) JIRA
2 1 (2.38%) Fiddler
2 1 (2.38%) IDA Disassembler
General
1 8 (19.05%) Public Sector
1 8 (19.05%) Social Skills
2 2 (4.76%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (4.76%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 10 (23.81%) 2nd Line Support
2 9 (21.43%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 7 (16.67%) 2nd Line Engineer
3 7 (16.67%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
3 7 (16.67%) Support Engineer
4 6 (14.29%) 1st/2nd Line Support
4 6 (14.29%) Principal Engineer
5 5 (11.90%) Developer
5 5 (11.90%) Network Engineer
5 5 (11.90%) Python Developer
5 5 (11.90%) Support Officer
5 5 (11.90%) Technical Support
5 5 (11.90%) Technical Support Officer
6 4 (9.52%) 1st/2nd Line Support Engineer
6 4 (9.52%) Windows Engineer
7 3 (7.14%) Active Directory Engineer
7 3 (7.14%) Active Directory Support
7 3 (7.14%) Printer Engineer
7 3 (7.14%) Printer Support
7 3 (7.14%) Windows Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.38%) OLE
1 1 (2.38%) OpenMP
Miscellaneous
1 4 (9.52%) iPad
2 1 (2.38%) Cyber Kill Chain
2 1 (2.38%) Driving Licence
2 1 (2.38%) Public Cloud
2 1 (2.38%) YARA
Operating Systems
1 25 (59.52%) Windows
2 13 (30.95%) Linux
3 12 (28.57%) Windows Server
4 10 (23.81%) Windows 10
5 6 (14.29%) Unix
6 5 (11.90%) Debian
6 5 (11.90%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (11.90%) Ubuntu
6 5 (11.90%) Windows Server 2012
7 3 (7.14%) Windows Server 2016
7 3 (7.14%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (4.76%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (26.19%) Customer Service
2 9 (21.43%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 8 (19.05%) Infrastructure as Code
3 8 (19.05%) Virtual Environments
4 7 (16.67%) Agile
4 7 (16.67%) SIEM
5 6 (14.29%) Asset Management
5 6 (14.29%) Cybersecurity
5 6 (14.29%) ITIL
5 6 (14.29%) Visualisation
6 5 (11.90%) Configuration Management
6 5 (11.90%) Data Engineering
6 5 (11.90%) Data Modelling
6 5 (11.90%) Information Management
6 5 (11.90%) Matrix Organization
6 5 (11.90%) Prototyping
6 5 (11.90%) Security Hardening
6 5 (11.90%) Security Monitoring
6 5 (11.90%) Systems Engineering
6 5 (11.90%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Programming Languages
1 8 (19.05%) C#
1 8 (19.05%) Java
2 5 (11.90%) Python
3 1 (2.38%) PowerShell
3 1 (2.38%) SQL
3 1 (2.38%) VB
Qualifications
1 13 (30.95%) Security Cleared
2 12 (28.57%) DV Cleared
3 6 (14.29%) CCNA
3 6 (14.29%) CCNP
3 6 (14.29%) Cisco Certification
3 6 (14.29%) SC Cleared
4 3 (7.14%) Degree
5 1 (2.38%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (2.38%) MCSE
5 1 (2.38%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (2.38%) Network+ Certification
5 1 (2.38%) PMI Certification
5 1 (2.38%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (14.29%) NIST
2 2 (4.76%) GDPR
2 2 (4.76%) QA
System Software
1 12 (28.57%) VMware Infrastructure
2 11 (26.19%) Active Directory
3 5 (11.90%) Virtual Servers
3 5 (11.90%) VMware ESXi
3 5 (11.90%) VMware NSX
4 2 (4.76%) Terminal Services
4 2 (4.76%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (2.38%) Docker
5 1 (2.38%) Lustre
5 1 (2.38%) Slurm Workload Manager
5 1 (2.38%) Snort
Systems Management
1 12 (28.57%) SCCM
2 5 (11.90%) vCenter Server
3 3 (7.14%) Autotask
4 1 (2.38%) FortiGate
4 1 (2.38%) Kibana
4 1 (2.38%) Kubernetes
4 1 (2.38%) Terraform
4 1 (2.38%) WSUS
Vendors
1 18 (42.86%) VMware
2 14 (33.33%) Microsoft
3 7 (16.67%) Cisco
4 5 (11.90%) Red Hat
4 5 (11.90%) Veeam
5 4 (9.52%) Palo Alto
6 3 (7.14%) Fortinet
6 3 (7.14%) Remedy
7 2 (4.76%) Splunk
8 1 (2.38%) Google
8 1 (2.38%) Juniper
8 1 (2.38%) Mitel
8 1 (2.38%) Oracle
8 1 (2.38%) Zscaler